Glöcklerlauf

The Glöckler are spirits of light who are supposed to drive away their opponents during the Rauhnacht. This custom is particularly widespread in the Salzkammergut region. The Stainacher Glöcklerlauf has even been part of Austria’s intangible cultural heritage since 2010. The white-robed Glöckler wear paper caps, which are traditionally lit from the inside with candles. […]

Wallpainting o.T.

In his work, David Reumüller examines the nature of individual and cultural identity. His method is the reconstruction of image and generated images. With video installations and photographs, the building blocks of contemporary image production are made tangible on several levels in parallel. Images are created that relate to images – a perceptual experience that […]

Mura Island

As part of its general refurbishment, the Murinsel was also equipped with event lighting (LED bars that illuminate the metal outer skin of the island in all kinds of changing color effects). This means that the island is no longer illuminated with spotlights from the shore, but shines itself. During the Klanglicht weekend, a laser […]

Arkestra of Light: Eternal Sea of Darkness

As with KLANGLICHT 2015, the well-known Graz-based film and projection artists OchoReSotto – Volker Sernetz, Stefan Sobotka-Grünewald and Lia Rädler – were responsible for the “redesign” of the opera house on the Kaiser-Josef-Platz side. Their “Arkestra of Light” transformed the façade into a visual and audio experience with the installation “Enternal Sea of Darkness”, accompanied […]

Njörd – Spirit of the wind

With their sound and light installation “Njörd – Spirit of the Wind”, the French artist collective “WeComeInPeace” won an award at the Lyon Light Festival in 2014 and has been represented internationally with their art project ever since. The light installation consists of 21 illuminated monoliths in which feathers dance an aerial ballet accompanied by […]

I, Libertas, hold you, little earth…

As part of KLANGLICHT 2016, the composer, sound artist and performer Tamara Friebel dedicated herself to Hartmut Skerbisch’s lightsaber, which was commissioned by ‘steirischer herbst’ in 1992 and helped the children’s and youth theater Next Liberty to its name. In her work for KLANGLICHT, Tamara Friebel set out in search of new perspectives on the […]

Text splitter

A sound collage of the Schauspielhaus, recorded by the theater’s artists and produced by Matthias Grübel, theater musician and sound designer, who also created the music for “Merlin der Das wüste Land” in autumn 2015, formed the framework for the light installation Njörd at Freiheitsplatz. This KLANGLICHT contribution was an artistically realized audio playbill preview […]